On 1/19/07, Ryzvel@3mail.com Ryzvel@3mail.com wrote:
I was intrigued last year to find that somebody had deleted one of my contributions on the grounds that the deletor [?] had never heard of it. Acting on this criterion, I would spend my waking hours deleting Wikipedia articles. Tim . . .
Yes, that seems to hold a lot of weight in deletionist debates, someone who has never worked in the sciences never heard of a scientific concept and doesn't understand the underlying basics, but thinks the article should be deleted because it's on a concept they "had never heard of."
KP